Film company “Sakhafilm” started for the winter filming of the film “At the End of the World” directed by Eduard Novikov based on the story of the same name by Nikolai Leskov. They take place in the Khangalassky region of Yakutia. In the summer, the film crew worked in the Churapchinsky ulus.
The main roles in the film will be played by Russian theater and film actors Sergei Zanin (he plays Hieromonk Kiriyak) and Sergei Peregudov (Bishop). Also involved in the filming are artists from the Sakha Theater and the Olonkho Theater, the Nemyugyun Folk Theater and local residents.
Among them is Stepan Petrov, an amateur actor from the Kerdem folk theater. For his role in Eduard Novikov’s film “The Tsar Bird” he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Yakutia. This film received the Grand Prix of the main program of the 40th Moscow International Film Festival. For Yakut cinema, the award was the first significant victory.
As the film company clarified, St. Petersburg actor Sergei Zanin, having learned that he would play the role of Hieromonk Kiriyak, immediately began to grow a beard. And actor Sergei Peregudov comes from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. He admitted that he was glad to return to his native element.
Nikolai Leskov wrote the story “At the End of the World” in 1875. It tells the story of the archbishop, who in his youth carried out missionary work in Siberia. The hero decided on a risky journey, in which he was saved from death by an unbaptized guide – a foreigner. This ultimately allowed him to understand the law of sacrificial love.
The prototype of the hero of Leskov’s story was Yaroslavl Archbishop Nil, whose story was retold to the writer by the famous St. Petersburg businessman and philanthropist Vasily Kokorev. According to another version, the archbishop read the travel journals of the traveling priests, and then recounted to the patron one of the incidents that he remembered.
Source: rodina-history.ru